by Joseph Braude Earlier this year at a conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Saudi King Salman bin Abdel Aziz made a series of noteworthy remarks about the widespread phenomenon of…

[caption id="attachment_55250735" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The Vasilika refugee camp is a military-run refugee camp located in an old warehouse in Vasilika village (Thermi) near Souroti,…

by Tony Badran This month marks the 10-year anniversary of the end of the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. The strategic changes that have taken place in the Levant over the past…

By Hanin Ghaddar * By definition, an Achilles heel is a weakness in spite of overall strength, which can actually or potentially lead to downfall. In the past few years, Hezbollah has acquired a…

As the Syrian conflict drags into its fourth year it is disappearing from the world’s television screens. New crises in Gaza, Ukraine and Libya have pushed Syria’s war down the news agenda, and the…

[caption id="attachment_55251047" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Iranian students listen to the lecture of a professor in the campus of Tehran University, on October 29, 2006. (ATTA KENARE/AFP…

[caption id="attachment_55250607" align="alignnone" width="620"] A picture taken from the Israeli side shows an Israeli army Merkava tank positionned along the border in front of buildings in the…

[caption id="attachment_55250601" align="alignnone" width="620"] Smoke billows from an area near Tripoli's international airport as fighting between rival factions around the capital's airport…

[caption id="attachment_55250581" align="alignnone" width="620"] Yemeni mourners and security forces stand next to a pick-up truck carrying the body of General Hamid al-Qushaibi (portraits) who was…